Stefano Costanzo
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Stefano Costanzo
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Geoarchaeologist, PostDoc, lecturer in Quaternary Geology and Climates

Arid lands, Mediterranean world, Late Pleistocene and Holocene

Micromorphology, GIS, mad land surveys
About Mersa Gawasis: I should be able to make it to SafA 2025 in Faro, where I plan to present kickstart results from the 2023-24 field seasons - a whole lotta stuff from Stone Age scatters up to Industrial Archaeology, but it's the rock shelters that always make for the best photos to flex
January 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
And Sudan always in a special place in my heart - geomorphology and remote sensing as the most powerful tool to monitor land use and plan new surveys

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January 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Collaborations on formation processes in arid lands always active, this time regarding the canals of the Tower of Salut in Oman

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January 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
PhD over, and I walked the walk towards completely new horizons for my first PostDoc position - Third Mission, museum studies, research sustainability and Neanderthals in coastal northern Italy.

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By the end of 2025 there will be a big one, working on it!
January 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
And one on north Italian Bronze Age, because it's always good to have a stroll in your own backyard every now and then (I got more on the general topic but they ended up on books edited in Italian - DM me if interested)
January 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Meanwhile, there went a couple of works on the demise of the Assyrian water management infrastructures in northern Mesopotamia - research paper and related micromorphology photographic dataset

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January 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Then my favourite one from my PhD: making sense of the paleoenvironmental data from a region the size of northern Italy - not the ultimate work, but I am quite proud of it (please cite it lol)

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January 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Back to the original quest, geomorphological-archaeological nexus in Mahal Teglinos - the most important yet still mostly unknown late Holocene archaeological site of the easternmost Sahel

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January 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Then came a lucky side quest on the obscure east Sudan's Islamic funerary tradition, which is still getting more attention than I could anticipate
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January 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
What is up mammals, I just managed to get back into my account so here goes the inauguration post with a compilation of my articles in chronological order, starting from the oldest - the geomorphological map of the Southern Atbai (Sudan), kicking off my PhD journey

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January 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM